"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
"These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming."
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Source: Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.453, Oxford University Press
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